Word: tape
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Caught between red tape and secret police, the frantic Magda eventually turns on the gas in frustration and despair...
...Gehrmann and Fred Wilt raced into the final lap of the Bankers' Mile in Chicago Stadium one night last week, a double team of judges including the great Jesse Owens carefully watched the finish tape. There was to be no repetition or the row over the famed Wanamaker Mile in Manhattan seven weeks ago, when the judges disagreed over the winner and blocked the view of the photo-finish camera that might have settled the matter.*But as it turned out, any extra precautions were unnecessary...
...became infuriated at the red tape which entangled him when he wanted to draw on his letter of credit. To cut the tape, he designed the now familiar American Express travelers' cheques. They now comprise the bulk of the company's billion-dollar business, and have become standard exchange in every corner of the world. (So valued are they, in fact, that last year a ring started to counterfeit $1,000,000 of them-and was nabbed.) As the demand for travelers' cheques grew, American. Express had to expand its services abroad (it sold its domestic freight...
Personal satisfaction, according to Lyman S. Moore, City Manager of Portland, Maine, is one of the big rewards of municipal civic workers. In a question period following the talks, Moore pointed out that "One man's red tape is another man's system...
...just a publicity stunt for BOAC. Washington's Educational Services, a serious-minded outfit dedicated to the proposition of "Recordings for more effective learning," had arranged the show to promote the latest wrinkle in learning-while-sleeping devices. Educational Services is planning to put out a tape-recording kit with instructions for learning anything from good behavior (for children) to old Danish...